defragmentation

基本解释

After the defragmentation is complete, Disk Defragmenter displays the results.
在Windows Vista系统中，没有图形用户界面显示进展，但您的硬盘驱动器仍在进行磁盘整理。整理完成后，磁盘碎片程序显示整理结果。
The partition is then "frozen" (in other words, only the current number of extents will be considered for defragmentation).
然后分区被 “冻结”（换句话说，仅对当前数量的区段进行碎片整理）。
Merging extents to get fewer extents (defragmentation) is beneficial to customers who have a large number of extents in a partition and are likely to run into the partition page overflow problem.
对于那些在一个分区中存在大量区段，并且会遇到分区页溢出问题的用户来说，合并区段来减少区段数量（碎片整理）是非常有好处的。

Now defragmentation as an aside is not so much necessary these days because hardware has gotten so performance.
在硬件性能如此好的今天,碎片处理显得并不是那么的重要。
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Note: With Microsoft Windows or any defragmentation application running in this or another operating system.
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